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Her colleagues use her office as a lunchroom, during lunches when she isn’t eating thousand-year eggs. Today her menu is chicken sandwich, so the place is safe for all ethnicities.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

Beneath these giants, way down in the understory, her own body seems freakishly small, like one of those acorn-people she made in childhood.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
He has always been alien to her, a man of procedures where there should be passions.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Wolfe now moved into a new apartment at 865 First Avenue, just two blocks toward the East River from the Perkinses’ house.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
They understand what most people in this land don’t: that you can’t restore what you ain’t never had. Living on a land that ain’t yours, pretending to know everything when you don’t, making up rules for this or that to make yourself seem big, that puts a terrible strain on a body. This land don’t belong to the people that rules it, see. And it’s
... See moreJames McBride • The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel
territory was being encroached upon. “Even eye color?” Rich’s eyes widened. “Boring,” Levi said. “Eye color, hair color, height, gender—those
Rachel Khong • Real Americans: A novel
She sighs long and slides down into the way things need to be. “It’s good to be cooked for.”